Zine library at Ontario College of Art and Design
Eric sez, "The Ontario College of Art & Design is opening a sweet new zine library on Wednesday the 14th, showcasing zines from all over. Admission is free, and there will be workshops from the Sheridan College Zine Group on how to create your own zines! They're still taking donations, so if you're cooking up the Boing Boing of the future, feel free to go drop a copy off! Looks like a great way to celebrate this often-overlooked artform!"
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I didn't think any still made zines anymore.
Since everybody and their mother seems to have a blog (or even their own domain) to espouse their opinions, why make the trip to Kinko's?
That said, it is an artform. Much like band flyers, they have the handmade feeling that is impossible to convey via the internets (unless, you have Adobe CS and loads of time on your hands to make some look like it was actually hadnmade).
as a founding parent of expozine, montreal's ever growing zine fair, i can testify that zines are so far from dead it's overwhelming.
glad OCAD is supporting the zine world.
the bibliotheque national de quebec also has a great collection.
Zines are alive in Portland.
When you come to Portland, be sure to drop by our mostly-zines bookstore, Reading Frenzy, our public library's collection of zines, and the
Independent Publishing Resource Center, a nonprofit how-to-do-it and how-to-keep-it-weird shop.
petition to change name to "maga"?
The Baltimore public library has a great zine and minicomics collection. Chicago has a great zine collection forming too. There are great zines everywhere (if you know where to look) despite the ubiquitousness of the blogosphere.
There's still a pretty hefty zine community in Toronto. The Toronto Zine Library operates out of the TRANZAC and zine review mag Broken Pencil just held its annual Canzine festival and it was busting at the seams.
It does seem like zines are a little more like portfolio padding than they use to be, but I might just be jaded. Lately they do seem to be more of a means to an end than a means unto themselves.
Crap, I messed up that Broken Pencil tag. Kinda wish you could edit comments.
There's also a lot of zinesters in Halifax. The Anchor Archive is probably the best zine library I've ever seen (they also run a silk screening shop and an artist residency).
The zine scene may have slowed down from its peak in the 1990s, but is still going strong. I'm co-founder of The Queer Zine Archive Project that collects current queer zines as well as zines from the past. We get new zines submitted to us fairly often, and we attend as many zine events all over North America as we can, but there are too many to hit all of them. There are indeed people "still making zines."
"looks like it was handmade" never was and never will be "handmade," and zines still don't require a net-connected computer to communicate ideas.
Gee I forgot the Portland Zine Symposium!
It IS interesting how zines persist. Is there crossover between bloggers and zinesters?
(I published an anonymous mimeographed "underground" zine of filler news clippings in the bowels of a major American daily paper and "delivered" it via inner-office mail to the publisher and other honchos. Through Factsheet 5 I had "subscribers" from Wall Street and Hollywood. Calvin Trillin wrote me a letter - what a treasure! But the instant I got access to the net I threw those stencils out.)
There's definitely crossover between bloggers and zinesters. I publish The Hungover Gourmet zine and also do a companion website and blog. Aj Michel publishes Syndicate Product and has a great blog. There are tons more I'm sure but I'm tired and lazy.
Frankly, if I was starting out publishing now I probably would bypass the whole print version but I've been doing zines for so long and I still enjoy the whole feel of having something printed that I can send out.
If your in Seattle anytime after January 1st,2008, don't forget to stop by ZAPP on Captitol Hill. ZAPP stands for Zine Archive and Publishing Project, they have a huge archive of Zines and also teach classes on how to make your own Zine. It has been open for a few years but is currently closed for re-organization until the new year. It is located in the basement of the Richard Hugo House, a reading/writing center who I work for. Mapquest:
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There is a zine library open to the public in Harvard Square, Cambridge MA. (on Mt. Auburn about a block from the Harvard Lampoon bldg., 51 Mt. Auburn) that has been there for years, I believe it's the "Papercut Zine Library." I always thought it was unique; I guess this idea is more widespread than I thought.
This is a bit different from a zine-only bookstore but I thought others may be interested in the Midwest Zine Collective and the yearly Madison Zine Fest held right here in Madison, Wisconsin. The fest usually falls right at the start of the Wisconsin Book Festival each year (though it wasn't held this year).